The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) has posted a privacy alert re summer vacations with some tips on how to keep yourself safe with respect to fraud or ID theft. You can read their privacy tips on their web site.
Category: Misc
NH: State’s perversion of ‘driver privacy’
The following is an editorial by Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader: The people of New Hampshire should know that their state government is using — in our view misusing — something called the “Driver Privacy Act” to prevent them from finding out what their public servants are doing on public…
Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good
Cory Doctorow writes: For 10 years I’ve been part of what the record and film industry invariably call the “information wants to be free” crowd. In all that time, I’ve never heard anyone – apart from an entertainment executive – use that timeworn cliche. “Information wants to be free” (IWTBF hereafter) is half of Stewart…
Is Your Favorite Charity Spying on You?
Anne Kadet reports: Whether a patient comes in for a gall-bladder operation or to have a baby, the routine remains the same for staff at Sharp HealthCare hospitals in San Diego. The front desk checks insurance records to make sure the bills get paid on time. Nurses take vitals and tag their charges with a…